The History of Cuba, vol. 3
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The History of Cuba, vol. 3
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The History of Cuba, vol. 3 is a scholarly survey that chronicles the island’s political, economic, and cultural evolution from the early nineteenth‑century revolutionary stirrings through the Ten Years’ War and its aftermath. The work opens with a biographical sketch of José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero, a Cuban educator dubbed “the Socrates of Cuban youth,” whose life story sets the tone for a detailed examination of the forces that shaped Cuba’s struggle for autonomy. From there the volume proceeds chapter by chapter, outlining the commercial backwardness of the colony, the series of filibustering expeditions led by Narciso Lopez, the diplomatic entanglements with the United States, and the eventual emergence of a distinct Cuban intellectual class. The opening pages already reveal a focus on statistics, institutional analysis, and the interplay of foreign and domestic pressures that defined the era.
Written in the formal, didactic prose of early‑twentieth‑century American historiography, the text reflects Willis Fletcher Johnson’s background as a professor of American foreign relations. Its tone is authoritative yet accessible, peppered with extensive footnotes, illustrative plates, and a meticulous chapter structure. Readers who appreciate exhaustive primary‑source detail, the economics of colonial trade, and the political narratives of Latin American independence will find this volume rewarding, especially scholars, graduate students, and history enthusiasts interested in the nuanced pre‑modern Caribbean.
Who appears in The History of Cuba, vol. 3
- José Cipriano de la Luz y CaballeroLate‑1790s Cuban gentleman, dark hair, slight beard, wearing a black academic frock coat and cravat, with a subtle hint of colonial Havana backdrop
- Baron HumboldtMid‑19th‑century German scholar, silver‑gray hair and full beard, in a dark tailcoat, waistcoat, and cravat, holding a leather notebook
- Felix VarelaEarly‑19th‑century Cuban priest, bald head, trimmed beard, dressed in a black cassock with white clerical collar, holding a liturgical book
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"The Socrates of Cuban youth," as he has often been called, José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero was born in Havana on July 11, 1799, and was educated at the Convent of San Francisco, the University of Havana, and the San Carlos Seminary where he was a pupil of his uncle, José Agustin Caballero, and of Felix Varela. Later he travelled and studied in the United States and Europe. In Germany he became intimately associated with Baron Humboldt. Returning to Cuba in 1831, he gave himself to the task of improving and promoting the educational interests of his country. In 1843 he revisited Europe, but was recalled the following year to answer an absurdly false charge of being implicated in the Negro Conspiracy. He then founded and until his death conducted his famous school of El Salvador, in which for a generation many of the foremost Cubans were educated, and in which manhood and patriotism were ever the foremost items of the curriculum. He was the author of a number of standard educational works. He died on June 22, 1862.]
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